<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">ICML Workshop on the Reinforcement Learning Competition 2013</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">(<b>WRLCOMP</b>)</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">in conjunction with</span><a href="http://icml.cc/2013/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt"> <b>ICML 2013</b></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">, <i>16-21 June 2013 </i>Atlanta, USA.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></div>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/rlcomp2013/icml_workshop?pli=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><font color="#800080">https://sites.google.com/site/rlcomp2013/icml_workshop?pli=1</font></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">Workshop program (</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">June 21, 2013</span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">)</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> 9:00 -10:00  Introduction to the workshop, results, domains<br>
10:00-10:30 Break<br>10:30-12:00 Presentations of approaches</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">13:30-14:30 Invited talk by Marc Deisenroth</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></p>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">14:30-15:30 Discussion on the future of the workshop.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span> </div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a name="13f3ed36d28a29f2_13f3e74a7aae88f6_TOC-Submit-a-paper" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">Workshop goals</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">In </span><a href="http://2013.rl-competition.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt">the reinforcement learning competition</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">, researchers can test their algorithms and insights in a friendly competitive way, on new and challenging domains. The reinforcement learning competition has not been organized for a while, but will take place again this year after a long hiatus. The primary aim of the competition is to test both general and domain-specific reinforcement learning algorithms, using an unbiased and transparent methodology. The domains used in the competition will form a set of benchmarks, and the results of the submitted algorithms will form a body of benchmark results, which researchers can then use as a basis of comparison in future work. <br>
<br>The ICML reinforcement learning competition workshop will bring together researchers, who participated in the competition, in order to present and discuss their results. We will evaluate what works, and also under what conditions established methods may not work so well. In this way we hope to broaden our insight into state-of-the-art RL algorithms, and important properties of RL problems.  <br>
<br>A secondary aim is to discuss methodological approaches for comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. This remains an issue in reinforcement learning in general. <br><br>Another important aim is to ensure the continuing existence of the competition, and the prevention of further hiatuses. Our aim is to ensure that the competition will organized annually again, from this year onward. To this extend we will try to build up an organization of interested researchers.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">  <br>
<br><br></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt">Organizers</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></p><ul type="square" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a href="http://liawww.epfl.ch/People/dimitrak/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt">Christos Dimitrakakis</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a href="http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~ntziorzi" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt">Nikolaos Tziortziotis</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gli/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt">Guangliang Li</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/~roijers/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,51,204);font-size:12pt">Diederik Roijers</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></li>
</ul><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0in 0in 10pt"><a name="13f3ed36d28a29f2_13f3e74a7aae88f6_TOC-Program-Committee" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:14pt">Program Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<ul type="square" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Mauricio Araya</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Olivier Buffet</span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Marc Deisenroth</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Christos Dimitrakakis</span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Guangliang Li</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Diederik Roijers</span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Ronald Ortner</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Vincent Thomas</span></li>
<li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Nikolaos Tziortziotis</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Nikos Vlassis</span></li>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Guangliang Li</span></span></div>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">PhD student, Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Room C3.258A</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Email: </span></span><a href="mailto:G.Li@uva.nl" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:blue;font-size:10pt">G.Li@uva.nl</span></span><span></span></a><span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"></span></span></p>

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